this is why you should care only. here when observers confirm violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village of tremseh say but the findings put opposition claims of a civilian massacre in question. in other stories that shape to this week russia's south was hit by its deadliest ever floods but thousands of people from across the country joined a efforts to help those who have lost everything. days of anti allstar already protests in spain that lead to dozens of injuries and morning about the strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense all the fuel public anger plus it's almost a lift up to right now. we see all the latest crew now on the route to the international space station where they'll spend the next

four months. thank you for joining r.t. for the weekly this sunday with me karen tara well russia's southern resort region of it is recovering after the worst floods and its history more than one hundred seventy people were killed in the deleuze caused by an torrential rain thousands of houses were also destroyed artie's denis wolski reports. it was a night of cheer for the people of greensburg in almost an instant the small town was virtually swept away by a torrent of rain and mud deluged by a giant wave of up to seven meters most of the buildings there wellington was lucky to survive in the sudden burning queue woke up his wife and son before rushing to

help an elderly disabled neighbor surprise them injuring experience what arose immediately with dread to do something to save our belongings but the water was everywhere it was high time was saved ourselves and we climbed up onto the roof spaces others were not so lucky with many elderly people in particular found amongst the dead in the morning so reivers desperately needed help fresh water dried clothes and food their s.o.'s message was answered with russian president vladimir putin riving to see the rescue and clean up operation for himself besides thousands of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to chremes medical students assisted doctors vaccinating survivors fashion model and philanthropist but earlier with john over two gifts were children after an appeal on facebook i just left everything and came here just to just to clarify because i felt i had to and to see how how i myself can be helpful but also before doing that we kind of just got to do whatever we could in one day and we gathered does. tons

of half of it there's still this. very necessary provision many locals who refused to believe the official account that the flood was caused by torrential rains rumors that the deluge followed the discharge of water from a reservoir continued some spread both social media triggering a second wave of panic hundreds of people will gather here fearing that the new wave of floods is coming into town nobody says where they got this information basically people rely on rumors the false alarm however did not stop people from once again returning to their homes and can. the massive operation these people just arrived from the i.c.c. they're volunteers they brought shovels rubber gloves everything that is needed to clean up the debris and many flood victims took matters into their own hands literally diving put their belongings but it greetings to come shots car i mean it's an earthquake and when i came here i got hit by

a floods the russian government and regions of georgie's are just gump and see victims with gash and help to rebuild their homes or you want to produce left with nothing and even though it may take weeks and months to get things back to normal this current southern russia is just refusing to give up even though the town has been badly here that looks like the people of greensburg have not lost hope and against all odds they're staying and helping each other to rebuild their homes and their lives. crossing the region a timeline of the tragedy that swept through southern russia is available on our web site and there's plenty more on the story at our t.v. dot com there you can also see photos and footage from the scenes of the disaster that devastated towns and communities in southern russia. new details have emerged about the bloodshed near the syrian city of hama which reportedly resulted in two hundred deaths but u.n.

findings suggest there had been fierce clashes between the heavily armed syrian army and rebel fighters on thursday challenging opposition claims of a civilian massacre are just more of a national brings us the details from damascus. but you're an observatory mission hint syria has visited the village of tremseh in the syrian central province of hama hours after the news of much about the alleged massacre there and they've confirmed indeed fierce clashes between the rebels and the governmental forces took place on the ground but this concludes is that an attack apparently by the governmental forces appeared targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially amita faxes and opposition activists and this conclusion actually contradicts initial reports that we've been hearing from syrian opposition here they've been very close and they're real to believe in massacre the opposition has also claimed that at least two hundred people most of whom civilians have been killed in this incident actually what the international observers have discovered

is in line with what we've been hearing from official sources here in damascus that the army launched an assault against trouble hope but in this village in the province of hama we've been hearing accounts from official sources that the army even allowed some time for local residents of this village to evacuate and that was only off to the rebels refused to surrender that's going to intensify to the spillage for when this assault officials have come to me to say that they've seized many weapons from what they call word terrorists and they've killed many of them and even captured some of them and we've seen apparently some of these people on syrian t.v. here in damascus and this can fast they were involved in this incident in what happened in the village of tremseh and they've even sad that they were given weapons that buys forces from abroad and especially from turkey while problems continues to rage everywhere call syria it still remains unclear exactly who the

syrian government the syrian regime is fighting against his more important that since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad. and his government to step down the defectively to give in to the demands of the armed opposition but it seems so far there is no clear understanding of who exactly they are. these fighters of the syrian opposition they're brave determined full of pride they took the fate in their hands . but for some taken control of their destiny meant taken up arms in this amateur video posted on you tube which cannot be independently verified gunmen calling themselves members of the opposition militia from it live explain why this man was hanged and which he helped the syrian regime and was killing the

rebels they say i am. on behalf of all fronts let me express my admiration by the bravery over the norm but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. the terrorists are really those murderers and i believe it's necessary for them to leave us. we cannot ask the opposition to unilaterally give up their struggle for justice dignity and self-determination in other media whose origin is hard to establish these men say they captured the syrian air force officer then they dispense even more rough justice. the united states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better

communicate. in this video camera says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who carries with the assad government that. they are top criminals these people are top of criminality how do they have the right what you'll see when you find your country destroyed our country we've been building our lives. the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime we seem to actually see one that can take care of its people many however fear that should such people force assad to leave since like these will become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in a western force democracy. where they targeted democracy in the gulf or in other countries we are syrian people we should decide these things ourselves. this mantra that the syrian people alone should determine their country's future has been

repeated by many nations and has finally been recognized by major world powers but it was some states continue to call on assad to leave and support in his opponents fears mountie in syria that it's the people that will pay the ultimate price. r.t. from damascus in syria where it's ten minutes past the hour now and the u.s. and its allies are pushing for a u.n. security council resolution demanding that president assad but not the rebels comply with the peace plan or face action russia and china say they won't allow military interference in syria middle east expert tariq ali believes it's no coincidence that the opposition's claims of the army's atrocities in hama come at a crucial point in foreign diplomacy over syria. i have seen evidence now from journalists in the field i cross the beam who insist there are cross the t.'s

carried out by the syrian national council and they are when i say from supporters of creating mayhem in some areas and they are deliberately carrying out these are crossties so that they can be blamed on to. the regime the regime does its own planes we know that but these people are by no means on the side of the angels as soon as they've protected if we're going to have sanctions why not impose on sanctions no on these armed groups that are creating made him in that country it is not only our service that has become very clear over the last few weeks and one can't simply say that this is justified because of who they are fighting against you know the syrian national council is the favored group of the western countries the only way of forward is not don't see a discussion constitution constituent assembly and that it is now obvious that the

west is not going to lead because they are affectively backing the people who are opposed to any negotiate social elsewhere in the region anti-government protests in bahrain aren't dying down despite the authorities as ban on opposition rallies there were fresh clashes between demonstrators and ride place on saturday and it's forecast that confrontations will escalate between the ruling semi monarchy and the majority shi'a population american academic column couple who spent a lot of time in the region says a crackdown on dissent in bahrain makes the country's criticism toward syria illegitimate. the al khalifa is. continuing to be very scary this pro-democracy opposition that is a quarter mile with three quarters of the population are firing tear gas canisters . injuring many of the protesters and killing some of the older people in the

protests because this is a deadly. and of course the tortures continue jaylen continue. and how areas to many observers and international politics that the so-called friends of syria are being backed by the most autocratic monarch in the world saudi arabia. bahrain regimes that have no history of democracy and all. this free syrian army bunch of mercenaries have no legitimacy. along with bahrain saudi arabia has been stepping up its crackdown on anti-government rallies activists say two men were killed in the oil rich eastern province after police opened fire on protests triggered by the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric last sunday the saudi authorities have deployed extra troops to the area amid worries of pressure on

a rest among their population who have long complained of discrimination by the sunni world and. so i have for you this hour greece lurches from recession to racism we were born on how banks are driving prejudice and violence against non greeks living in the debt stricken country. also after several instances of abuse and even death moscow revises its adoption deal with the united states to hold american families accountable by taking russian children into their care. it's been a turbulent week for spain where more than seventy people have been injured in days of the sturdy protests that began on wednesday when miners supported by thousands of demonstrators converged in madrid security forces fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowds the workers as protests turned violent on friday when the spanish government approved a new round of cuts in exchange for the eurozone bailout to save the country

struggling banks crisis strategic goals alida says he expects more on rents to come . the people in power or the political leadership in the e.u. as well as the united states don't quite seem to understand what is going on and the rights you get to stand up they are told you to be mainstream debased profits are obscene and i think that these governments of daily mail continuously it's just simply unconscionable you know of course you can reload she said they are upset about it but of course the politicians do you. absolutely nothing to rein in that part of the banks and instead what i thought we could lose to start to be very vocal about it fracking and not solving the problems that we have we have on the one hand an out of control financial sector which is basically raping the public. and on the other hand you have necessarily cuts to be generous social safety net

that had been promised but simply dishonest cannot be care if it's simply too expensive. this is just a for more and more social discontent that we are going to see throughout the e.u. across the mediterranean and greens of the economic woes there have fueled a rise in racial intolerance violent attacks on immigrants has searched as extreme right wing views get a bigger voice and parliament following last month's elections party pledges include ridding the country of all emigrants and urging volunteers to donate blood only to greeks jacob groups reports. well all around the country crumbles some parts of greece acing firm foundations take root. in that we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from the word of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiments looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has

proven to be the prime outlet for public anger that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence in greece but not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of greeks suffer from by those gangs of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land. despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians live on air the party still secured around seven percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of their hospital beds and incendiary pledge as having dark consequences as greece and in particular athens have seen a spike in the number of hate crimes i have seen almost then yet that's the part that's by organizing moves ahead by turns very see me and these attacks are happening at night and there wherever doesn't integrate by people who are often for

dead and armed with clouds. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens i want to wish if i'd known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia tribal have to when you're. there beat me to the ground and ran over my leg with a bike. his case is by no means unique the mother of these children was also assaulted while pregnant the perpetrators remain at large as in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilante groups in disco targeting ethnic minorities. victims say there's little point turn to police but just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u.

country is poorest border of turkey where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics anything that will add sway only the here are the eventual groups militant it insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with them into agreement what happens is once while you're going in the ground has been caught. in another place in europe he's going back to that country that he entered europe and ups. that means they end up in greece all athens pleads for. the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the extremism but entering thank you greece fits

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say and kazakhstan. well now contant down the i.q. . of a japan as well as yuri malenchenko of russia as well as all sunita williams all the united states and it's almost a list of all right now. what an amazing sight to just of the wrong although just the size and power just pulsating through this area it's just amazing i mean my feet i shaking now everybody is clapping are around us it looks like oh these are use that expertise in thirty two has gone up into orbit with no hitches oh hey cubs it's been an incredible journey out here at baikonur cosmodrome and i wish all you wishing them all the best until they get to their next home will be looking out to see what experiments they come back with and what research they come back with campaign groups operating in russia are funded from abroad and involved in politics are

likely to face tough scrutiny the country's lower house of parliament has been given the green light to a bill forcing such organizations to register as foreign agents such groups will have to undergo financial on its issue regular reports on their activities failure to do so for could mean heavy fines or even two years in jail it's caused a storm within russia society with criticism that it restricts civil liberties but those behind the law say the measures will help boost transparency the u.s. also weighed in against the bill despite having almost identical legislation itself . all right time now to bring you an update on some of today's main world news rescue workers are searching for survivors after an eleven story building collapsed in northern egypt at least twelve people are dead people at the scene claim the building was riddled with structural flaws which caused it to cave in three

neighboring buildings were also destroyed by the collapse. at least twenty people have been injured in clashes sanctioned rally in southeastern turkey in support of the kurdistan workers harvey's imprisoned leader protesters want him put under house arrest and instead of being in jail officers fired tear gas and water cannon at an angry mob who world rocks the party which wants a separate poor vicious state in turkey is considered a terrorist group by the country. thousands have gathered in northwest pakistan an anger of the real burning of nato supply lines through the country into afghanistan demonstrators carried banners and waved flags denouncing the decision islam about close the route of last november after a u.s. drone strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers but only reopened them earlier this month to washington eventually apologized. russia has changed its adoption

agreement with the united states following several cases of abuse and neglect it calls for more cooperation and transparency when vulnerable children are taken in by american families parties madina courtship of explains. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border stands a remote trains hidden in the mountains and forests of this northwest part of the u.s. for many adopted children from russia who have found themselves abandoned once again this remote train in the state of montana has become their last resort after so much rejection but despite its noble goal care homes like this and there are several across the country are close to the outside world it's almost impossible to discover the fate of these neglected children last week russia's children strides commissioner pavel is to help try to visit the range but it was denied access to the children living there. with their assume many lies about the real conditions of

tutoring adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on i know there were twenty four russian children of different ages and as i understand it they were all removed just days before my visit but this incident in montana happened only a week before a long awaited agreement concerning the well being of russian children adopted by u.s. families was to come into force russia has long been demanding information from u.s. authorities on the fate of children after they have been taken in by adoptive families but under u.s. law once a child is legally adopted the state has no specific responsibility to monitor or oversee how they are doing with their new families once an adoption is foreign allies in any state in the united states that child is considered as is born to those legal adoptive parents there is no further intervention at

all on part of the adoption agency in rison years it's an issue that has caused several difficulties in relations between the two countries since russia suspended adoption of its chill. by americans that was prompted by widespread outrage after a tennessee mother sent her adopted eight year old son back to moscow alone with a known saying she no longer wanted him and that was no isolated case nineteen russian children have been killed or badly injured since overseas adoptions began in nine hundred ninety one including seven year old you violence got about god was beaten to death by his american foster parents you know what we found and this harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother held herself punishing her adoptive little russian little boy why do you like to be.

meeting you do. this it works like to me what it is what you like to me but boy you want stuff was that what you mean. jessica beagley was charged with child abuse and there's untold numbers of children who have been and are being abused but it isn't stable and so it doesn't make headlines we have no way of knowing though there has been some progress in the political arena there were thousands of russian children fostered an adopted across the u.s. and while some may well have phone loving families nobody knows just how many a suffering the fate of little evens could have got there by then of course there are two reporting from los angeles california. what's a blower or traitor than a few minutes we hear from an x. u.s. national security agency executive who chose to expose the truth about his career

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